330 Comments on “Speaking English – Bad Habits”

before I listen to the lesson ..I say thank you so much dear teacher ronny…..I love you .and I like your lessons ..you’re super…may allah bless you

Sunday, December 9th 2012

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hi again teacher ronnie .I enjoyed the lesson
it’s very helpful and useful..thank..then I have a request ..I would like to tell you can you do fro us a lesson about “The Causative Form ” and what’s the difference wetween the “Causative Form” and “the passive form”
Are they similar؟
شكرا جزيلا لك وبارك الله فيــــك

i just wanna say that i did not ever see teacher as like you in my whole life. cos your way of teaching is marvellous.
would that u were my real teacher in my life, but all in vain. because i live in pakistan.

Thank you very much Ronnie! i like your lesson very much, because they are always useful. Actually, I used to do all of them without knowing that, they are bad..but i know now, So, i will try not to do them again in the public!

Hello Ronnie, it was nice to listen to your lesson in fact I started to be addicted with this site. My current situation is tough because I grew up in other country which the language is different but this time that I am in the United States I have to learn English and I am glad that I’ve found this website. I really appreciate and the fact that this is a big help for a non-native English speaker.. Miss Ronnie, if I have a request for you would you be able to have a video, although I know that one of your co-teacher had a video with this topic but I need more explanation. Maybe you could explain it more and not only myself but for those really interested and eager to know what’s really the meaning of and how do you use it like Would, Could, and Should… Thank you and have a good one. Godbless

Sunday, December 9th 2012

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Your english seems to be very good. So, I’m wondering why have you been asking for lessons on the meaning and use of Could, Should or Would.

i sincerely thank’s to my all teachers over here who has helped us with this beautiful site really i’m enjoying a lot and i request humbly to all my beloved teachers to help me more because i’m very weak in English.
With love Rupen.

Thank you very much for good lessons.. I love you so much. You are very very good teacher.I would like you advice me,please!!! How to listen and speak English too fast? I have big problem.. And how to remember vocabulary?? In my brain have a little vocabulary…
Sinceary,
Phatsenee

Ronnie, You are sick! (i don’t try to offend dear Ronnie, I just follow by her lesson ” how slang is made in english”). I love You, Ronnie so much, that i will even forgive You cracking Your knuckles :). Normally I hate when people do that, becouse i’m afraid that they are hurting themselves.

Hi Ronnie
my problem in English is remember vocabularies
if I learned new words and there meaning in my language, maybe after less than 1 day I will forget
would you please tell me how I can save the words in my mind
Best regards

Monday, December 10th 2012

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Understand that you have to repeat all you’ve “learned”. Don’t learn the words themselves. I mean, in the way when you take one word and you look for its translation. This doesn’t make any sense, at least to me because if you don’t use the words you’ve learned, you simply forget them. This is a natural process of learning and forgetting. xD Instead of this, try to read English text and translate full sentences or at least short fragments. Start with fields that you are good at. For example: I’m interested in copyright issues, and daily I read 3 to 5 longer texts in English. There are many phrases or even whole sentences that are repeated with each new text. Sometimes a sentence is a little bit different. Maybe the word order or only one word was changed. If you see a similar sentence several times, sooner or later you’ll be able to learn a word (or words) that you don’t remember. Besides, you also learn the structure of sentences. But this won’t work from day to day. You need to put a lot of work, and if you are consistent, you will achieve what you want.

Thank you teacher.Is it also possible for you tell us the date on which it will gets posted on the EngVid or we can see the video.

I have become fan of your’s.

Thank you so much for these lessons.My brother is also a member of EngVid his id is engvidstudent He wants me to become a very good speaker of English, and I am also working hard for it.As it is a business language.

I hope you get to read this because its coming from my heart…wonderful wotk…seriously.
yesterday I came across this video and I went on to watch thirty more. I`ve grown to admire you in less than 24 hour. thank you very much for your outstandingly good work. bye bye

hi, Ronnie. very important lesson. nobody teaches us about this subject, so here, we have the chance to learn about this vocabulary, that probably will be useful on a daily basis. thank you so much. bye

Hi, Ronnie. very important lesson. nobody teaches us about this subject, so here, we have the chance to learn about this vocabulary, that probably will be useful on a daily basis. thank you so much. bye

thanks for the lessons, was very easy to learn what does it mean every bad habit with your examples, i like the way you explain every word while you are speaking, its very helpfull :) thanks Teacher Ronnie

I don’t know what to say, but i’m really a big fan of your special style of teaching…!! this is the real way to learn a language if one tries to speak it!and I just wanted to tell you that you helped me a lot to speak daily English, all i need is to practice it as i live in an Arabic speaking country where it’s hard to find someone to talk to in English! :D Thank you so much!!! :D:D:D

My question might not be related with the subject of the video, but…
at the end of the video you say: “If you have a bad habit, keep on doing it!”
I would like to know if the sentence “Keep on doing it” is informal. Because I use to say “Keep doing it!” Or are both of them grammatically correct?

Many thanks Ronnie for your lessons, u r really gave us a lot of information especially this lesson so keep going to give us more and more.
Hassan AL-Baaj, Iraq , Amam Jaafer AL Sadic university, college of art part English.

Ronnie you are the best English teacher I’ve ever seen.You truly know how to motivate people to study English.Thank you;-)I’m looking forward to watching your further lessons.Best wishes from Poland;-)

I have many bad habits, I’m feeling how is bad to do this things in front of other people like , to bite my snake, to sniff or crack my back or my fingers.
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I’ve learned many diferents words in this video class. Thanks for your class.

hi ronnie i Ramu from chennai india i love of your dedication of what you teach and then i have just seen your infinitive and gerund you taught me that gerund and infinitive are never use in a same sentence that’s right but the thing is example i like swimming means i liked but in the later i like to swim means what does it means i thing i only like to do swim either incase if any fault of my words you may pardon me because i have lag of english thanks regards ramu lives at chennnai

hi,Ronnie this is a great plearuse for me to write to you to thank you about all the efferts that you have done,i am really one of your faithful funs,so i just want to ask you about your facebook.thank you again,your kindly friend.

hi ronnie,nice lesson.ronnie you r one of my fav teacher n im sure u can help me..will u pls tell meI want to know exactly what is data entry. Can you explain it to me with examples? Is it entering some data in the forms or tables? Where do i get this data to be entered?

I have done an MS Office course. Other than this, do I need special qualifications to do that? Please help me out. Please
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Oh you´re such a super teacher!! Hahah you make me remind my last English teacher. She was so interactive as you actually are. Also I want to thank you for all the time you spend on helping people to understand this eautiful and exciting language. BTW I could understand every word you said!!

I think is very useful if you mention the next time that bad odors or bad smell is one of the worst habit. If people wants to be successful in Canada as their new country have to take a bath and put some deodorant on.

Thank you Ronnie. I learned new vocabulary today and it is true that bad habits are common in real life. I want to mention a bad habit I hate, when you are sit in a chair and someone is next to you moving a leg all the time or kicking your chair. I answered the quiz and I got 10, I’m happy. Best regards.

Hello Ronnie I´ve loved this lesson mainly the last advice Hahaha I thing It missed some bad habits as spit out, scratch something and when we made sounds from belly by mouth. I really like your sarcasm way -I´ll still annoying my friends ;) take care.

Hi ! Ronnie,I love ur methods of teaching so much . Thanks for the lesson and reminding me not to crack my knuckles , my back, my neck in public :). But, it’s not easy for me to give up cracking :)
Have a nice day !<3

thanks ronnie’re a very good teacher, more than mine from school and hopefully follow so long, since I mentioned recently, I had made an account of engvid and thanks for teaching me so well that I am not English but you dry I appreciate it a lot and pull test or ten out of ten I was super good

Hi dear Ronnie
Thanks for this helpful lesson, by the way I used to crack my knuckles as a teenage girl but now I really hate it when people do that but I’m willing to make an exception in your case because I LOVE YOU, you’re so lovely so you can do it as long as you want:*

Dear,Ronnie:) I really like your lessons, cause they are so cool and easy for understanding…^) You always make me smile even if I don’t want to!)) Thanks a lot. In Saint-Pete, you know, there are too many fucking idiots whose ill-behaviour you’ve described here in different points that it can hardly be called a capital of Culture anymore….From my humble opinion, it does not depend on age and job but sometimes it’s rather difficult not even to respect, to ignore them…. You know what I mean….:) It’s so ridiculous when you see middle-aged people of a very low cultural background with terrible manners!!!!! Thank you anyway, now I know what reference to give them in order to emphasize their stupidity….^)

Can you guys from Brazil and any Spanish speaking country tell how to say those expressions in Spanish and Portuguese?
Namely:bite one’s nails
pick one’s nose
to snap a gum
crackle the knuckles
and to sniffle
Thanks

Sunday, January 11th 2015

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Hi! There’s a long time since you asked this question, I don’t know if you still don’t know the answer but here it is:
bite one’s nails = roer as unhas
pick one’s nose = enfiar o dedo no nariz
to snap a gum = I think that there isn’t a specific word for that
crackle the knuckles = estalar os dedos
sniffle = fungar

I m quite grateful dear teacher Ronnie You are awesome And very funny …..please could You tell us about You mmmm i ve been watching your videos since several months but i need to know more about Who teaches us thanks many greetings from surco lima peru.

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